The constitution of England, with life and notes by J. Macgregor

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Сторінка xiii I gave the only copy I had (the consequence was that I was obliged to borrow one
, to make my English edition from) ; and I added, that I hoped his Lordship would
honour me with his subscription. However, my hopes were here again ...

Сторінка xviii The Heedlessness of an armed force to support itself by, and, as a consequence,
the singular subjection of the military to the civil power. ADVERTISEMENT. xix
The above mentioned advantages are peculiar to the xviii ADYEETISEMENT.

Сторінка xix It is, however, a fact that political prepossessions and party spirit are not
productive, in this country, of those dangerous consequences which might be
feared from the warmth with which they are sometimes manifested. But this
subject, or in ...

Сторінка 1 He was educated for the bar, and became an advocate ; but in consequence of a
work which he published, intituled Examen de Trots Points de Droit, he was, in
the disordered condition of the canton at that time, either expelled from, or he ...

Сторінка 14 ... it had only been established on the continent, and particularly in France,
through a long series of slow successive events ; — a difference of circumstances
this, from which consequences were in time to arise as important as they were at
first ...

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Сторінка 76 - Will you to the utmost of your " power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the " gospel, and the protestant reformed religion established " by the law ? And will you preserve unto the bishops and " clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to " their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do " or shall appertain unto them, or any of them ? — King " or queen. All this I promise to do.

Сторінка 353 - It hath sovereign and uncontrollable authority in the making, confirming, enlarging, restraining, abrogating, repealing, reviving, and expounding of laws, concerning matters of all possible denominations, ecclesiastical, or temporal, civil, military, maritime, or criminal ; this being the place where that absolute despotic power, which must in all governments reside somewhere, is intrusted by the constitution of these kingdoms.

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Сторінка 356 - The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state ; but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter, when published. Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public ; to forbid this is to destroy the freedom of the press ; but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequence of his own temerity.

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